12 Reasons to Love Jawbone UP24

Jawbone UP24 is a fitness tracker that ranks among the best wearable technology today. I have been using the UP24 for 3 months now and I love its physical design and the cool daily tips from the app. It can track the number of steps per day, length of sleep and even works as a food journal.

UP24 comes with a free app for smartphones where you can view the steps, sleep and food taken. It also provides tips and recommendations based on the data that is being tracked.

Unlike other fitness tracker, Jawbone UP24 doesn’t have a screen. So you can’t check your progress at a glance. You need the free app on your smartphone to view all the metrics. If having a screen is not an issue, then Jawbone UP24 will have all your fitness needs in one gadget.
The Jawbone UP24 is now available in the Philippines for 8,590 PHP. It is available at Apple Premium Resellers in the Philippines, including Power Mac Center and iStore. Jawbone UP24 is also available at leading lifestyle and electronics stores like ROX, Common Thread, Automatic Centre and Ambassador Appliance stores.

The UP24 band comes in three sizes (Small, Medium, and Large) and is available in three colors: Onyx, Pink Coral, and Persimmon.
Here are 12 reason to love a Jawbone UP24 and why you should get one too.

1. Minimalist Design – Jawbone UP24 looks like a wristband rather than a watch. It fits well and doesn’t feel heavy on the arm unlike other fitness bands. It is less intrusive so your hands can move normally. I barely notice it sometimes. Even though it is small, it is durable and water resistant. You can wear them even on the shower but you can’t swim with them.

2. Long Battery Life – I hate charging several devices in one day. I am running out of charging docks and electric outlets. With the new firmware update, UP24 can last up to 14 days on a single charge. It does more of the fitness tracking than charging.

It says that battery can lasts up to 14 days.  And it does!

3. Wireless Connection – The device pushes data wirelessly your smartphones via Bluetooth. The data can be viewed using the UP mobile app which is available for both iOS and Android. Data sync is fast enough. So even if the UP24 doesn’t have a screen, the mobile app will make up for it.

4. Simple to Use – Jawbone UP24 is easy to use and has only one button. A single button to activate sleep tracking, a timer and a power nap. These functions can also be activated in the mobile app.

Just one button and 2 light indicators.

5. User Friendly Mobile App – The free app really looks nice. It’s not cluttered and shows the metrics in a clean and colorful interface. Bar graphs gives you a quick look at your progress and the trends which you can view weekly and monthly.

Clean interface for the UP mobile app

6. Useful metrics – UP24 provides the basic pedometer function that counts the number of steps. It is done automatically and looks accurate. UP24 also works and a sleep tracker and food journal. These functions are not automatic. I need to manually activate the sleep tracking mode through the button or the app. I also need to manually input my food intake for the food journal.

7. Workout Recovery Feature – This feature reminds you to input an activity like a run or a sleep. Jawbone does this by detecting periods of sustained activity and shows up in the feed to remind you to input it in the app. So if you forget to put it in sleep mode the previous night, the app can detect your sleep activity and remind you to manually add it the next day.

Missed to log a run? Jawbone reminds you to log it.

8. Daily Tips – Jawbone UP24 gives daily tips through the app. The tips are really useful and motivating. It can be about fitness, health and some trivia. I would open the UP mobile app daily just to read the new tip for the day.

Tips are not just about fitness

9. Today I Will Challenge – UP24 loves to motivate its users. Once it started tracking my steps, sleep and food, it provided challenges for me to complete for the day. The challenge can be an increase in the target number of steps, sleeping at an earlier time or as simple as drinking 8 glasses a day.

Jawbone encourages you to step it up!

10. Vibrate Alert – There are several alert options for the UP24. I enabled the idle alert which tells me if I have been sitting for more than 1 hour. That is a good way to remind me to move a little bit more. There is also an activity alert to let me know of my progress. I set it to vibrate every 2,000 steps reached. The vibrate mode can also be set for reminders like appointments or tasks.

Alerts can be for Idle, Activity and Reminders

11. Team features – Jawbone UP24 has a social component. I can view the progress of a friend who has a Jawbone device. We can comment on each other’s progress and cheer each it other up. The team features makes fitness tracking more fun with friends who have the same goal as yours.

12. App Gallery – The UP mobile app allows you to link data from other apps like RunKeeper, Strava, MayMyFitness, MyFitnessPal and more. Thus, you don’t have to move from one app to the next for updates and insights.

Some of the many apps you can connect with Jawbone

Jawbone UP24 Review Summary

Jawbone UP24 is a great fitness tracker. It provides a lot of features than just telling you the number of steps. The UP mobile app tells you not just your daily progress but also gives out tips and even challenges. Thus, Jawbone UP24 is not just giving you the numbers. It makes the numbers useful by giving you personalized tips and challenges to keep your fitness goals on track.